Ungaretti

English translation: Immensity fills Me with light.

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Hello, Italian/English colleagues. A question from a refugee from the Spanish/English boards here.

I am looking for a line from a poem by Ungaretti. Unfortunately I only have the line in Spanish. 'Yo me ilumino con lo incomensurable'. I have found some of his war poems on the net, but nothing that fits. I am now hoping it is similar enough in Italian for somebody maybe to recognise it. Otherwise, I would accept any suggestions you may have.

Thanks for all your help - I have posted this in Spanish/English also.

M\'llumino
D\'immenso.
His poem is either two words or four words, depending on how you count them. Let\'s try to translate it:

Immensity fills
Me with light.
Or:

My sun inside
Rises from space.
Or:

I pull in immense
Space and am in glory.
Or:

I light up my soul
With the hugeness of space.
But it\'s clear that the two \"o\'s\" of illumino and immenso are part of the explosion. How can we do that in the translation? Impossible. All we know is that when light and space are brought close to each other, they explode. \"

M\'llumino
D\'immenso.
His poem is either two words or four words, depending on how you count them. Let\'s try to translate it:

Immensity fills
Me with light.
Or:

My sun inside
Rises from space.
Or:

I pull in immense
Space and am in glory.
Or:

I light up my soul
With the hugeness of space.
But it\'s clear that the two \"o\'s\" of illumino and immenso are part of the explosion. How can we do that in the translation? Impossible. All we know is that when light and space are brought close to each other, they explode. \"